Crossword clues for sabbatical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sabbatic \Sab*bat"ic\, Sabbatical \Sab*bat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. sabbatique.] Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.
Wiktionary
1 Relating to the Sabbath. 2 Relating to a sabbatical#Noun. alt. 1 Relating to the Sabbath. 2 Relating to a sabbatical#Noun. n. An extended period of leave, often one year long, taken by an employee in order to carry out projects not otherwise associated with the employee's jo
During the sabbatical, the employer may pay some or all of the wages that would have been otherwise earned or some or all of the expenses incurred. university lecturers, for example, may be granted a one-year paid sabbatical once every seven years.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the Sabbath; "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims" [syn: sabbatic]
of or relating to sabbatical leave; "sabbatical research project"
n. a leave usually taken every seventh year [syn: sabbatical leave]
Wikipedia
Sabbatical or a sabbatical (from Latin: sabbaticus, from Greek: sabbatikos (σαββατικός), from Hebrew: shabbat (שבת) (i.e., Sabbath), literally a "ceasing") is a rest from work, or a break, often lasting from two months to a year. The concept of sabbatical has a source in shmita, described in several places in the Bible. For example, in , there is a commandment to desist from working the fields during the seventh year. Strictly speaking, this means a sabbatical would last one year.
Sabbatical is a 2007 CTV television movie, which was filmed in August 2007, as a pilot, and aired on 23 November 2007.
The film follows Patrick Marlowe (who is on sabbatical), his paleontologist wife Dr. Julie Marlowe, and their children, as they leave the big city for Julie's dinosaur dig in Saskatchewan's Avonlea Badlands (located south of Regina).
To be close to the dig The family moves to the fictional small town of Beacon Vista. On their way to Beacon Vista, their mildly autistic son Danny is almost kidnapped by a trucker, who had previously helped them change a tire while flirting with the daughter Gwyneth.
The family quickly finds some oddities about their new home. Cell phones don't work, and the local minister preaches the end is near.
The family wakes up after their first night in the new home to discover that a triple murder (a mother and two children whose husband/father is working on an oil rig) occurred next door while they slept.
Later, while both playing a video game and sleeping, Danny has some sort of psychic vision related to the murders.
Patrick also has some back-story involving a scam he pulled with Jack Driscoll (a now dead former coworker) and some related missing money.
The last revelations of the film are that the murders, and possibly some local teens, are connected to devil worship. While Sabbatical and Sabbath are related in their connection to time off and generally have positive connotations, the root sabbat is also used for wiccan holidays, and has a history of negative connotations in fictional works (music, and games).
Usage examples of "sabbatical".
His thoughts during this brief sabbatical return to one image: that man, ready to disappear without issue, whether or not his choice of companion in this life chooses to accompany him in exile.
Torah commands that a sabbatical year be observed every seven years in Israel, during which time all agriculture should be suspended and the land be allowed to lie fallow.
Four years back, when Henry was on sabbatical at the National Institutes of Health, he was studying autism, and he wanted to know which genes might account for the difference in communication abilities between people and apes.
Blake is a professor using his sabbatical for meandering through the countryside and putting on the magic shows he finds such fun to do, all out of his pink touring bus!
Anderson, an expert in superconductivity and solid-state physics, was visiting Cambridge for the year while on sabbatical from his position at Bell Laboratories.
Sabbath afternoon, workless, the cotton and corn growing unvexed now, the mules themselves Sabbatical and idle in the pastures, the people still in their Sunday clothes on galleries and in shady yards with glasses of lemonade or saucers of the ice cream left from dinner.
Before Mulla and Landau snatched me out of my, um, sabbatical, I was doing some research into the history of mazes and labyrinths.
He had kindled her fancy with those notions of a Sabbatical year and a Silver Wedding Journey, and when she was willing to renounce both he had persisted in taking her to see the ship, only to tell her afterwards that he would not go abroad on any account.
She has been away on a sabbatical for many years and is spending this time with us now until she can be reunited with them.
He teaches in the chemistry department but is on a semester sabbatical in France.
She was connected with some religiolesbic movement there and she had neglected to send a circular letter about her sabbatical.
I have a sabbatical next year, and the money you've generously paid me will allow me to devote the entire year to studying the Hieroglyphic Stairway in the Mayan ruins at Copan in Honduras.
Shelling, a gravitational physicist on a sabbatical from Rockwell International, headed up a mathematical group which had been delving into Ganymean field equations and energy-metric transforms for six months.
I know this comes as a shock to you, but not everyone is a neophiliac posthuman bodysurfer whose idea of a sabbatical is to spend twenty years as a flock of tightly networked seagulls in order to try and to prove the Turing Oracle thesis –"
It's probably a lucky break that I chose my sabbatical leave when I did.